The Orinoco megadelta as a conservation target in the face of the ongoing and future sea level rise

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 515-516; pp. 129 - 142
• Main Authors: Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Hernández, E., Rull, Valentí, Rull Vegas, Elisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.05.2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Climate change; Coastal flooding; Conservation; Deltas; Economics; Erosion; financial economics; freshwater; Global warming; Hydrochemistry; Indigenous cultures; indigenous peoples; Inundation; Large deltas; Migration; multicultural diversity; Neotropic; Risk; risk assessment; river deltas; Sea level; seawater; sediments; shorelines; streams; vegetation; Wetland; wetlands; ASW, Venezuela, Delta Amacuro, Orinoco Delta; Coastal flooding; Climate change; Neotropic; Hydrochemistry; Large deltas; Global warming; Biodiversity; Indigenous cultures; Wetland

Currently, risk assessments related to rising sea levels and the adoption of defensive or adaptive measures to counter these sea level increases are underway for densely populated deltas where economic losses might be important, especially in the developed world. However, many underpopulated deltas...